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A migrant (C) is squeezed among refugees and other migrants trying to get on a bus following their arrival onboard the Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ship at the port of Piraeus near Athens, Greece, September 4, 2015. European Union officials are preparing to push EU governments to take in many more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary, and seeking to overcome resistance to a quota system in eastern Europe. (Reuters)

Turkish soldiers stand guard as a funeral convoy, carrying coffins of drowned Syrian migrants including the three-year old boy Aylan Kurdi, drives to the Turkish-Syrian border in Suruc, bordering with the northern Syrian town of Kobani, Turkey, September 4, 2015. Two Syrian toddlers who drowned with their mother as they were trying to reach Greece were laid to rest in the Syrian town of Kobani on Friday, a Reuters witness said. (Reuters)

Refugees and migrants board a passenger ship heading to the port of Piraeus, at the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 4, 2015. European Union officials are preparing to push EU governments to take in many more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary, and seeking to overcome resistance to a quota system in eastern Europe. (Reuters)

Refugees and migrants are handed out bottles of water as they wait to cross the borders of Greece with Macedonia, near the village of Idomeni September 4, 2015. European Union officials are preparing to push EU governments to take in many more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary, and seeking to overcome resistance to a quota system in eastern Europe. (Reuters)

Citizens display a banner during Madrid‘s mayor Manuela Carmena‘s speech in central Barcelona, Spain September 4, 2015. The municipalities of Madrid and Barcelona are considering measures to improve the reception and international protection of refugees coming to their cities, according to a press release on Monday. (Reuters)

People take part in a demonstration asking for a change in the refugee policy in Europe outside the headquarters of the European Commission in Madrid, Spain, September 4, 2015. The municipalities of Madrid and Barcelona are considering measures to improve the reception and international protection of refugees coming to their cities, according to a press release on Monday. (Reuters)

People take part in a demonstration asking for a change in the refugee policy in Europe outside the headquarters of the European Commission in Madrid, Spain, September 4, 2015. (Reuters)

Migrants and refugees wait for a registration procedure after crossing the Macedonian-Greek border near Gevgelija, Macedonia, September 4, 2015. (Reuters)

Refugees and migrants prepare to board a passenger ship heading to the port of Piraeus, at the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 4, 2015. European Union officials are preparing to push EU governments to take in many more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary, and seeking to overcome resistance to a quota system in eastern Europe. (Reuters)

Tima Kurdi, sister of Syrian refugee Abdullah Kurdi whose sons Aylan and Galip and wife Rehan were among 12 people who drowned in Turkey trying to reach Greece, cries while speaking to the media outside her home in Coquitlam, British Columbia September 3, 2015. (Reuters)

Afghan refugee child Elias, 2, from Kabul wears a thermal blanket moments after arriving on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 4, 2015. European Union officials are preparing to push EU governments to take in many more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary, and seeking to overcome resistance to a quota system in eastern Europe. (Reuters)

Refugees and migrants are seen onboard the Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ship as it approaches the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, September 4, 2015. (Reuters)

Syrian refugees arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 4, 2015. European Union officials are preparing to push EU governments to take in many more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary, and seeking to overcome resistance to a quota system in eastern Europe. (Reuters)

Life jackets, deflated dinghies and life tubes left behind by refugees and migrants are seen on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 4, 2015. European Union officials are preparing to push EU governments to take in many more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary, and seeking to overcome resistance to a quota system in eastern Europe. (Reuters)

A photograph of Syrian woman Rehan Kurdi holding her son Aylan is pictured next to a bouquet of flowers outside the home of Rehan‘s sister-in-law Tima Kurdi in Coquitlam, British Columbia September 3, 2015. (Reuters)

Relatives lower the body of one of two Syrian toddlers, who drowned with their mother as they were trying to reach Greece, into a grave during their funeral in the Syrian border town of Kobani September 4, 2015. (Reuters)

Migrants walk in the night along the highway towards the border with Austria, some 22 km of Budapest, Hungary, September 4, 2015. Migrants in Hungary, many of them Syrian refugees, broke out of a border camp, fled from a stranded train and struck out on foot for western Europe on Friday as a crackdown by the country?s right-wing government faltered in the face of overwhelming numbers. (Reuters)

Europe is in the midst of an unprecedented human migration. Fleeing war, fearing for their life and dreaming of a better life far from the poverty and upheaval of their unstable nations, hundreds of thousands are flocking to Europe’s shores.

The migrants and refugees risk their lives in rickety boats and cramped lorry containers — only to be greeted by governments that can’t agree on how, or if, to welcome them.